Originally published in French in 2014, August 1914 is not so much a history of the first month of the Great War as an examination of how the war was experienced by the French, and how it affected, ...

On March 13, 1914, the conservative French newspaper Le ... Unsurprisingly, this sensational crime riveted France and the world, and the ensuing court case had all the makings of a legal circus.

However, the Germans succeeded in capturing a large part of the industrial north east of France, a serious blow. Furthermore, the rest of 1914 bred the geographic and tactical deadlock that would ...